Top 1200 Purchasing Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.